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Franklin Harper Elmore was born in Laurens District, South Carolina. His father was John Archer Elmore, a native of Virginia, who came to South Carolina in General Greene’s army and remained there.
His mother was Sarah Saxon.
Franklin entered South Carolina College in 1817, and was graduated in 1819.
Studying law under Andrew P. Butler, he was admitted to the bar in 1821 and began practise at Walterboro.
Becoming solicitor the following year, he served until 1836.
While not particularly active in the nullification controversy, he was a supporter of the movement and was a member of the nullification convention, being then and thereafter a devoted disciple of Calhoun.
In 1836 he was elected to Congress to succeed James II.
Hammond who had resigned.
He took his seat December 19, and served to March 4, 1839.
In 1839 he was elected president of the bank of the state and thereafter made his home in Charleston.
Under his management the bank was greatly strengthened and enlarged, and Elmore’s skilful defense of it both in his personal contacts and in a series of letters addressed to the people of the state probably saved it from destruction by the group of its opponents led by C. G. Memminger.
He himself was not only active in the construction of railroads, but he also developed the iron mines at Cherokee Ford and Limestone Springs.
In 1850 he was appointed to the United States Senate.
He applied himself so unremittingly to his manifold activities that his health again suffered, and, although for a time he continued to work on, he succumbed to pneumonia in the forty-ninth year of his age.
In 1880 he founded a quaiterly, the Archives of Laryngology, which he conducted during 1880-82. Elsbergs technical knowledge of music naturally made him the pioneer medical attendant and consultant of opera singers and other high- salaried voice-users; thus he developed a specialty within a specialty. He was equally prominent as a teacher and inspirer of laryngologists.
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He never lost interest in politics. In 1844 he was elected a delegate to the Baltimore convention of the Democratic party as a supporter of Calhoun, but discovering the hopelessness of his cause, did not take his seat. He supported Polk, however, who had been a close personal and political friend since their service in the House together, and was by him offered the post of minister to Great Britain which he declined.
In the House he was a consistent defender of slavery and during the time of his service, as a representative of the South Carolina delegation, he wrote to James G. Birney a series of letters of inquiry concerning the abolition movement which with Birney’s replies were published in 1838 in The Anti-Slavery Examiner (No. 8). He favored the annexation of Texas and advocated federal aid to Southern railroads, in the development of which he was greatly interested. In his appeal to the people appears his deep interest in the development of the state through the building of railroads, the improvement of agriculture, and the establishment of industries.
admitted to the bar in 1821 and began practise at Walterboro
member of the governor’s staff
member of the nullification convention
In June 1878 he founded the American Laryngological Association and was elected its first president, but in the following yeai, as the result of his first breakdown in health, was obliged to forward his presidential address fiom Aix-la-Chapelle. In 1880 he founded a quaiterly, the Archives of Laryngology, which he conducted during 1880-82.
His wife, whom he married in 1876, was Mary Van Hagen Scoville.
